New Alternative Media Star: Dr. Ardis

Posted on September 28, 2021 by ehurst

Dr. Bryan Ardis — he’s all over the alternative video channels. He’s a chiropractor who seems to have gotten some solid medical training. All of the videos are too long for my taste, but if you like that sort of thing, look him up. Try this one:

Let me summarize for you most of what you’ll get from it.

The medical system, being very highly regulated by various federal agencies, has been turned into a weapon against the American people. It has already been pretty crazy with all kinds of mandates rolling down from the top that are most certainly bad science and bad medicine. Most of the time, as we all should know by now, it has been mandates demanded by Big Pharma, and willingly enforced by the bureaucrats. There’s money changing hands.

With the appearance of the bioweapon, COVID-19, this problem has exploded. Fauci and friends have mandated that all hospitals must use Remdesivir to treat COVID. Fauci already knew that this medication was deadly; it failed every trial. The test patients were dying of things like renal failure in a matter of a few days. He signed all the reports that nobody is reading, except for a handful of whistleblowers like Dr. Ardis. It’s never been approved as treatment for any condition ever. Now all of a suddden, it’s mandated with the intent to kill COVID patients. Fauci ordered the US government to buy up all the production of Remdesivir and keep it in the US. The hospitals get paid a bonus to use Remdesivir, which is provided by the US government.

Dr. Ardis has the documentation of this conspiracy in his hands and will tell you where to get your own copies. They are written in the Byzantine language of medicine. And this gets worse: Hospitals have all been ordered by the same bureaucracy to alter medical charts so that it looks like vaccinated people are dying of unknown causes, while unvaccinated people all die of COVID. But keep in mind that people who believe in the system will not listen to any of this. People who work in the system most definitely will not listen to you, because you don’t know what they know. And they aren’t going to listen to Dr. Ardis or anyone else inside the system, because they are all paid not to listen.

Still, the whistleblowers are organizing conferences and so forth. I’m not sure what will come of all this, but I can tell you that I do not trust the system of government, to include the medical system, for much of anything. There are lots of good people trapped by the medical system, because there are precious few alternatives. Not too long ago, you might recall how hospitals, clinics, labs, pharmacies, etc., were being bought up by a tiny handful major medical providers. There are almost no independent providers in the US. The system was rigged to make them collapse financially so that they either closed or were bought out.

This is not news to anyone who has been paying attention. We are back to the foot of the Tower of Babel. We are into another apocalypse. I’d much rather you invest your time and energy seeking the Lord’s face on how to handle tribulation and persecution. Not my advice; learn it from others. Read old books written by people who suffered persecution for their faith; start with Richard Wurmbrand. Don’t worry about his theology. Look at how his faith focused on dealing with hatred and attempts to silence the gospel message. You’ll notice that the pattern is always the same throughout history. Every time Christians caught hell for their faith, it was always masked by governments trying to deal with some other manufactured crisis, for some other cause. It was never pointed at faith itself, but always some other excuse for oppression and tyranny.

Don’t get lost in the details. Dr. Ardis is a cool guy with good presentation talents, but he’s not focused on the gospel message. Learn what you can from him, but if you start getting wrapped up in various plans of political resistance, you’ll forget why we are here on the earth.

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Talk Is the Action Required

Posted on September 28, 2021 by ehurst

A couple of days ago I posted about a pastoral burden. All I did was alert my readers to a desire to share a vision of how we can work together as a community to answer a very real threat of persecution. Having restated who we are as the Radix Fidem covenant community in a post following that, I believe we are in a better position to delineate what I’m getting at.

I do not propose that we organize and agitate for political change, or that we take direct action to force people to stop pursuing these demonic plans. You can engage in that on your own with far bigger and better organized groups out there. It’s not sinful for you to do those things, but they are not the focus of what we do as a community. We focus on trusting God to control those things by His own hand.

Our focus is on the glory of our God. He has revealed ways that we can share together in the suffering and persecution coming our way. “The saints of God will tribulate” is the old saying, but what it means is that our witness is how we handle tribulation together, and establish an identity for all to see. We are flatly commanded to fellowship and serve the Lord together. It may be hard at times to find folks who approach religion the same way, but if we do not try, if we do not prepare for fellowship with others, we have failed.

The looming threat of apocalypse should drive us closer together, because that’s part of being driven into His arms. He is present in His people. A product of that closeness is that we confess alike both the praise of holiness and the condemnation of sin. What I’m asking is that we take steps to consciously agree to denounce certain things as “evil” as a group. We can as a group watch and analyze the nature of what’s happening before our eyes. We can see that the system is being manipulated into a killing machine. This is no longer hobby-grade politics; the government has declared war on us.

The COVID pandemic was engineered to cover a sinister biowarfare program. The virus was man made, the treatment protocols were criminal, and the vaccines are toxic. The whole program of lock-downs and mandates are meant to cover for a collapsing economy and provoke a civil war at the same time. If that’s not enough, there have been several other programs designed to enhance the social instability and economic collapse. All of these things are sin.

Denunciation of sin is not limited to some kind of document we all sign and publish. Rather, it’s the much broader array of things we do and say that show we have the same conviction about certain things. Not everyone is a writer, and even if you are, you’ll write differently than I will. What I’m talking about here is that you pray and contemplate how you can make your words and behavior consistent with the message, whatever it is you do and say.

Feel free to share with others what I write, or what others write consistently with the message. Given the nature of our online communion, that could be a major element of what you’ll do. Tell me you want something in printable format and I’ll whip it up; I know some of the others in our community can also do that quickly. But it’s more important that you live the message as a whole, that you become the message. Indeed, we should all become the message together.

This is the vision I want to share: Let’s agree to a common denunciation of sin as sin. Let’s agree to a common promotion of Covenant holiness. Let’s study together what we can hold in common about those things. The power of this is miraculous; it opens the door for God to pour out blessings in our lives. This becomes our shalom, which is critical to our testimony. We can show off the favor of our God and link it to the Covenant.

At the very least, twice each day I take time out to pray in a formal ritual act, seeking that the Lord will renew His Covenant, and call His people out to embrace it. During the day I keep on praying at various moments. I pray that He will begin stirring faith in the hearts of His people so that they will sense the need to seek something that churches aren’t doing already. Even if none of these people ever find us, I want to see His children moved to seek the meaning of His Covenant. But certainly, I would expect Him to bring us souls who need what we have.

Maybe it sounds trite to call this “action” when there is nothing that folks recognize as activism, but I sense the Lord is determined to move in a magnificent way, and He’s inviting us to get in on it. The starting point is prayer. I can’t make that come to life for you, but praying like that fires me up and brings peace in ways I simply cannot describe. And I am held by this firm assurance that God is going to act on those petitions. I can taste it; it leaves me shaking at times. This is what Christian Mysticism is supposed to do. You individually might take some particular action, but what holds us together is the shared commitment that fires all our varied actions.

I’ve already laid out prayer protocols; give them a try and see if they work for you. If not, listen to your convictions and follow them. Get used to praying out loud. Let’s talk about this vaccine mandate business and how it signals something sinister, something far more evil than just the vaccines themselves. Let’s try to understand together the bigger picture of this demonic move to seize full control over all humanity. Let’s talk about how it points to the greatest evil of all: silencing the gospel message. Let’s talk about ways to resist the censorship of our Covenant message.

And then, let’s talk about how God is going to work through our community to bring people to His truth. Let’s rejoice that His promises are true, and that He will provide for the mission to which He calls us. Let’s celebrate the signs and wonders He will most certainly grant to those who seek His face together.

Update: For those of you seeking the original “Spartacus COVID Letter” I found a copy of the PDF: COVID-19 – The Spartacus Letter. Since it’s anonymous, we shouldn’t have to worry about copyright. The original was taken down and moved to another link that people have been struggling to find, so I’m offering a copy here. Since this thing has gone viral, please take a copy and share directly so that we don’t burden this server account unduly.

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More Politics, Not Medicine

Posted on September 27, 2021 by ehurst

Yet another revelation that the COVID plague was a cover for a plan for mass slaughter.

This is an hour long, but you can get the main point in less than 15 minutes. You don’t need the video portion; just listen to it. One of the first things you learn is that Fauci knowingly required hospitals to use medical protocols that would kill the COVID patients. It has to do with Remdesivir, which has never been approved for treating any medical problem. It causes multiple organ failures, rather like Vancomycin. It’s a treatment that kills more than it heals. Summarizing, Fauci knew Remdesivir was toxic, and made it a federal requirement that hospitals use it as a COVID treatment so that it would provoke a higher mortality rate. Then it was reported that the COVID was causing those organ failures.

What we are seeing is a massive violation of all the rules we have lived with for decades, on secretive orders from the highest levels of the federal government. We already knew that the federal bureaucracy was telling hospitals that if they could come up with even specious links between COVID and any other ailment, the hospital would get a federal bonus payment. They were openly encouraged to exaggerate the COVID case count, even to the point of fraudulent reporting.

Once more: This whole thing is one massive plot to slaughter the human race. In this case, we learn that Fauci is knowingly on board with this effort. This is criminal.

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What’s This “Radix Fidem” Thing?

Posted on September 27, 2021 by ehurst

Because of a sudden surge in traffic on this blog, it’s important that all these new viewers have a fresh restatement of what this blog is about.

We are the Radix Fidem covenant community. That name is simply Latin for “root of faith.” It’s not a religion, per se, but a meta-religion. Faith is your internal response to the move of God’s Spirit in your heart, stirring and revealing your convictions. You sense an imperative to change the way you live. Faith expresses itself in various ways, and religion is what we call the organized effort to make faith dominate our lives. So a meta-religion is a religious study of what religion ought to be. We want your religion to be rooted in your faith, hence the name.

We define “faith” as your personal commitment to God as a real Person. The word “religion” indicates the sum total of your human response to the presence of faith. God grants His Spirit to whom He wishes; it’s totally His initiative. Thus, the existence of faith is always nothing less than a miracle. The only part that is human decision is the religion that arises from faith.

Academically, we fall under the label “Christian Mysticism.” Look that up and the primary meaning is that Christian Mystics believe in a personal encounter with God Himself as the central reality of religion. It emphasizes the individual spiritual experience. The assumption is that the core of what happens there can’t be described in words, but it certainly changes who you are. It’s an emphasis on the otherworldly realm, and things of this realm of existence have to take a back seat to that.

But our mysticism is not the same as most of what you’ll encounter out there. It’s not an additional level of intellect, but a totally different faculty awakened by God’s Presence in your soul. We are moved by a commitment to reclaim what God’s people had in the Bible. That naturally means learning something about the Hebrew people, their culture and their intellectual assumptions about things. We assert that God didn’t just choose the Hebrews, but that He built them from scratch, with their language and culture arising from the sources He chose. Even more critical, they arose from the act of rescuing them from slavery, and from a direct encounter with their new Sovereign at Mount Sinai, in which He revealed what they needed to know about Him. He created that nation for the primary purpose of revealing Himself to the world.

That nation arose in the context of the Ancient Near East (ANE). The Hebrew nation was unique in some ways, but surprisingly similar to the rest of their world in most other ways. If you examine the ANE, you’ll find a very rich intellectual heritage, but one that is radically different from the Western world in which we live today — so much is obvious to anyone who takes time to explore the differences in culture and intellectual traditions. All of the assumptions about reality and how we should approach our human existence are very different between the ANE and the West. Jesus was in that sense an ANE man. The Bible is an ANE book and Christianity is an ANE religion. God reveals Himself in those terms, and we need to understand them.

To some degree, following Christ demands that we absorb as much as we can from that radically different approach to life. Discovering the ancient Hebrew way of things was my primary calling and mission from the start, back in my college days in the 1970s. In recent decades I started writing about it online, largely because the mainstream churches rejected it. Somehow, my writing has gotten the interest of some folks, and this blog is where I share what I discover about faith and religion. I didn’t call for people to follow me, but they chose to do so on their own.

At some point, a community formed. It took me a while to shed the habits of traditional mainstream ministerial training. What we have right now is the most gossamer of threads holding us together, however much it’s possible to be a community online. These people have claimed me as their spiritual covering and tend to act like I’m their pastor, though I prefer the term “elder.” The way I see it, the role of pastor is ceremonial/priestly, whereas an elder is the organizational leader (both roles teach). That’s what the Bible refers to as the Two Witnesses — the ruling and priestly roles ordained by God. As you might expect, an elder of an online community has very nearly zero authority, except as is granted voluntarily by those who want to participate in what I’m doing.

We have one other elder, and his name is Jay. He also hosts this blog on his server account, along with the forum. Up to now, the forum has been a small handful of regulars who chatter about things of community interest. The only requirement is that you take a look at what I write and say, “Yeah, I can live with that.” I don’t take myself that seriously.

We hold that theology is man made; it’s just your internal organizational thinking about what God requires of you. I share my doctrine; feel free to share your own. I’m convinced God intended for us to gather in tiny little decentralized tribes. You are supposed to seek out folks whose religion and theology are similar enough with yours that you can work together in common cause. Naturally that implies you’ll look for folks with a similar background and experience. It’s not inclusive and diverse; that creates unnecessary friction and you get nothing done. A church is supposed to be an extended family household, but instead of shared DNA, we share a spiritual orientation. Covenant relationships always trump blood relations in the Bible.

So this online manifestation is not a church. It’s just a covenant association. The “church” part is how we relate to each other offline, through other means of communication. We want this online part to be more open so that folks can discover what we have found. You can join the online community simply by making your presence felt through comments here and on the forum. Do it often enough and we’ll remember you; it will feel like you are some kin to us. To join the church, you’ll have to get more involved personally. We use email a lot, and some of us text or call each other. We send stuff in the mail. For example, I’ve sent computer hardware and books to several people who associate with this community. Some of them have given money to help support my ministry.

Again, it’s totally voluntary. You get out of it what you put in. Eventually, I’m hoping that our approach to religion rubs off on enough people to see churches spring up across the US, and maybe even around the world. Nobody here pretends that we want to control those churches. All we ask is that, if you use the label “Radix Fidem,” that you try to be consistent with what we hold in common here in our online covenant community.

Finally, we keep this online community alive because we believe that this is the path to claiming all the blessings and promises God offered to His people under His covenant in His Son. To us, it seems that mainstream Christian religion has closed off some parts of that divine heritage. We want to set people free to indulge in God’s provision, which the Bible calls shalom — peace with God. We want to set His people free, with no strings attached.

You can find some useful PDF documents regarding that covenant and common commitment of faith: Radix Fidem is a tri-fold pamphlet outlining the major distinctions of the Radix Fidem approach to faith. Radix-Fidem-Booklet is just what it sounds like, a longer explanation of the Radix Fidem way. For something even longer and more involved, there’s the Radix-Fidem-Curriculum, written from the perspective of how we got to this point in human history.

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A Pastoral Letter on Vaccine Resistance

Posted on September 26, 2021 by ehurst

I’m going to share a burden that has grown quickly in the past few weeks.

Pray first, then think about this. Follow your convictions. All I can offer is what I have, and I fully admit that it’s limited to my own convictions. However, there are people who claim they look to me for pastoral guidance, and I’m fully aware of this burden of responsibility. Thus, I cannot simply speak for myself. The responsibility is much larger than just me.

So if you are inclined to engage my guidance on things, let me offer something rather concrete. We come to a point when it demands specific choices. Insofar as we have a genuine community of faith, and our choices affect each other, we have to make our choices together. I’m inviting you to stay with me, but you have always been free to dissent and step away. Either way, I’m gearing up for something that requires more attention than just sharing ideas.

I’m going to propose some generalities based on what seems most probable from my experience. My convictions tell me that this is one of those horrifying moments when the persecution is very real. This has moved from the domain of fevered imagination into very firm convictions that this is “it” — the moment we’ve all dreaded. It’s happening elsewhere, and it’s being tried here. Obviously I’m referring to the vaccine mandates. I wasn’t too sure about it until recently, but this has become the watershed issue upon which the oppressors have chosen to stand right now.

It’s not as if we are alone; the world is alive with a very fervent resistance. I’m not simply jumping onto that bandwagon. The difficulty here is that we don’t share all of the motivations espoused by the resistance, so we cannot share their plans. But we can certainly learn from them; there will be some overlap. For the time being, any action we might take won’t amount to much, in that we don’t trust any government agency anywhere to do the right thing. On the other hand, some states are prepared to resist the mandates on general principle. That situation is developing right now, so praying about it is all we have.

But I’m not calling for resistance to the vaccine itself in the first place. I’m calling for resistance to what is behind it: the intent to wipe out the majority of the human population. The vaccine is simply the means; if not the vaccines, then something else will become the weapon. The slaughter has begun, and the vaccine will become the focal point for everything we hear about from both official sources, alternative sources, and underground sources. From where we stand as Covenant people, the issue is the demonic effort to seize control of everything in this world. God will not allow them to do this, but they will murder quite a few before the right people decide it has to stop. Meanwhile, we follow a path by which we cling to His divine glory in the midst of this apocalypse.

So first I’ll ask that we all agree that the vaccines are simply a slow-acting murder weapon. God can protect you if your convictions say take the jab. Then again, this may be simply the way He intends to call you home. My point is that the vaccine is a serious threat, but only the current threat in a much bigger plot to depopulate the earth by about 90%.

So, I’ll be talking bad about the vaccines because of how they manifest the larger plot. It remains to be seen what twists and turns this foul narrative will take. The Lord hasn’t shown me very much about it, only the large shadow of evil about to roll over us. Some things I can surmise for the time being, and I’m preparing for those things. The one thing we can do together is sound the alarm that this is all about slaughter.

That brings us to the immediate primary need of our online community: staying in touch. Let me take this moment to remind you that you really should be getting to know each other, not just me. Spend time on the forum interacting with each other; this is your tribe. Contact me or Jay about getting an account; if you post here in the comments requesting it, Jay is likely to send you one in short order. So, this is the first order of business. If the forum is not your style, then reach out to the others by some other means. Some are more private than others, but if you want to encourage folks to get to know you as part of the Radix Fidem community, you can certainly post here in the comments any contact details you like for the benefit of others.

You don’t have to wait for me to tell you what to do about particular issues; confer with the tribe. Don’t stand alone; don’t let others stand alone. Alternative means of communication is important. The level of censorship about the vaccines and vaccine mandates is unprecedented. Just talking about that alone could see this blog shut down, particularly if it were the cause for high traffic. I’ve already called for people to send me snail mail addresses just in case I’m forced to use that route for something like a newsletter to replace this blog.

Along with that, I am requesting prayer for a means to high-volume printing. If not a printer in my home office, I need someone who will offer a printing service, along with the means to move the printed material to the people who want it. Even if the blog and forum remain open, I sense the need to put stuff in print for personal distribution where I live. Pray with me that I can find something affordable that can handle 100 pages or more on a regular basis. (Since I’m running Linux, it probably needs to be a little older hardware, too, unless the manufacturer has good Linux drivers.) I’m not looking for premium grade trendy stuff; I’d be happy with a solid dot-matrix or daisy-wheel printer, as long as the product is readable. I don’t expect to need graphics for any of this.

But more than any of that, let me encourage you once more to get to know each other. Don’t build a dependency on me. There are other folks in this community who can prophesy and offer wise counsel on various issues in human existence. That matters more than anything else we can do right now. You need to fellowship with your covenant tribe about how to face this persecution. I’ll be taking guest posts in the future on ways to think about all of this (let me know if you have something to say).

Meanwhile, expect to hear more about this. Right now, I’m going to recommend yet again this video of an interview with the Australian mortician who not only reveals his unique perspective on what’s going on behind the scenes with vaccine deaths, but also has some important things to say about what he expects with the oppression from the Australian government. Some of have said that Australia is the leading edge of what we should expect in terms of policy from the Global Reset crowd running the show across the West. This man knows he is likely to be killed for his efforts, but he is convinced that going along is even worse. You can catch him in the first 22 minutes of the longer video.

We don’t necessarily share the motives and expectations of this growing resistance movement, but we can learn a great deal from what they have to say about this ugly mess. We aren’t trying to address the wider audience as they do, but those who are ready to hear from the Lord. Our focus is otherworldly.

Finally, I have no idea what the details may turn out to be, but I’m gearing up mentally for some travel to carry this to a mission field in the real world. This is the kind of thing where the Lord has put on my heart to prepare for some short-term trips to meet with people of like faith. My wife and I have a home church, but I sense that what is coming won’t meet in my home. I’ve been praying for the Lord to move some people in my area, and to connect us by some means. Pray with me about this; some of you will run into the same thing where you live. The day is coming.

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New Testament Doctrine — Matthew 5:21-26

Posted on September 25, 2021 by ehurst

Historical context: The Covenant of Moses allows for a judgment seat at the household level with the head of household. This comes with a burden of the shepherd’s moral obligations. Sometimes the jurisdiction is above the household, because it involves sin against someone outside the household, or the matter is rather grave and threatens the shalom of the wider community. The next level is clan elder. There are a few more layers, and then the Sanhedrin. Ultimately, we all face God’s judgment seat in Eternity.

In our passage, Jesus has just said that one’s personal moral purity must exceed that of the Pharisees and Scribes to enter His Kingdom. He’s going to continue that theme in a series of pointed reviews of ancient prohibitions that the Pharisees and Scribes routinely violate for any number of false justifications.

Having established that God’s Law is binding until His Return at the End of All Things, Jesus goes on to explain a few laws that are included in Moses, but predate Moses. These go all the way back to Noah. No one on earth should dispute these basic moral boundaries. But the real problem is not the more obvious restrictions on human behavior, but the sinful nature that drives them.

Humans have always had a prohibition against murder — unjustly killing a human. It goes all the way back to one of the first things that happened just outside the Garden of Eden, when Cain killed his brother, Abel. It wasn’t the killing, but the lack of justification that defiled the earth; it was innocent blood. This remains a major element in divine justice. There must be an accounting for all bloodshed, human blood in particular.

Oddly enough, the one clearly stated principle in the Genesis 9 narrative about Noah is that unjust bloodshed must be balanced by justified bloodshed. That is, whomever holds moral authority is obliged to cleanse the land and their community shalom by executing the murderer. The act of murder defiles the blood of the killer while it’s still in his veins, so it must be shed to restore peace with God (shalom). Thus, whomever takes human life must face a trial before a valid judgment seat, to determine if it was justified. That was part of Noah’s Covenant.

In ancient Hebrew thinking, God is the source of all wrath. When a justified executioner performs his duty, it is always in sadness for his own part. The wrath and anger is not his, but God’s. We seek the divine Presence in our lives. To take up anger without that Presence separates you from God and puts you on a path of damnation; it’s you asserting your human evaluation in place of God’s revelation. You’ll end up facing that seat of justice one way or another. If your unjust anger leads you far enough to slander someone as worthless (“Raca”) in front of the community, you should face the Sanhedrin. It is you who threaten the Covenant shalom. However, if you come to the point where you utterly despise someone, it’s obvious you have rejected everything God has revealed about Himself, and you’ll face His judgment seat in Eternity.

How do you deal with people who disappoint you morally? Seek the Lord first while you still walk this earth. He will move your heart to the right answer, based on a calculus that includes things you cannot ever know as a mere human. He protects and covers our lives in ways we won’t understand until we see Him face to face. Our duty is to maintain loyalty through suffering and confusion in this life.

But notice how Jesus turns that in the next verse. It’s not about your anger. He talks about becoming aware that someone else is angry with you. That’s because what He advises is a redemptive act for the brother or sister who struggles with murderous anger in their souls. If you do all you can to preserve shalom and it doesn’t solve the problem, then you have ensured that you aren’t the problem. That’s your duty before the Lord in order to maintain ritual purity.

It’s not in your hands to correct that murderous anger in others. But if their anger does come from the Lord, then you had better make peace with them before it gets to the community judgment seat. Make sure you’ve done all you can do according to your convictions, because the Lord holds you accountable. On top of that, the Covenant community will tend to play it safe by squeezing you for the last penny when it comes to protecting shalom from defilement. It’s too late for appeals to the victim’s mercy when you get to the courts. (They were obliged to notify you of their complaint for some days before taking it to court, not least by trying to persuade you to make some kind of recompense.)

So the issue here is not just the rules of performance. Everyone carries some small measure of the shepherd’s moral obligation for the flock. If you cannot place your human needs in the same basket as those of the covenant community, you don’t belong under the shalom and moral covering they provide. The Pharisees and Scribes were notorious for seeking their own without mercy in every situation, doing everything possible to cut corners and seize unfair advantages. This included hiding from the common public things they used in the courts to gain those advantages.

They taught that petty anger and contempt were justified against average Jews, because they pretended to be of a higher moral level. Why, they actually studied the traditions of the elders, so they were superior! The Talmud teaches this even now, and it was wrong when it first raised its ugly head before Jesus came along.

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It’s Politics, Not Medicine

Posted on September 25, 2021 by ehurst

Here’s a little more information about what the system is doing: Physician ‘Horribly Injured’ After Pfizer Vaccine Pleads With Top U.S. Public Health Officials for Help — and Gets None.

To save you time, let me summarize this. An American medical doctor took the Pzifer vaccine and had an adverse reaction within 30 minutes. The suffering is debilitating. The bulk of what she experienced is a form of neuropathy — serious nerve damage. Because of her position as a clinical physician, she was able to jump through all the hoops to seek treatment. However, treatment is limited, and it is controlled by medical bureaucrats in various federal agencies. You have to get their attention. Most of those bureaucrats are also physicians; this is a case where the petitioners and officials speak the same language.

She submitted all kinds of paperwork trying to get the attention of these folks. For every other form of adverse reaction to any officially approved treatment, the system tends to work, if ponderously. On this particular problem, the bureaucrats are putting everyone off. Everyone. She finds herself in a large group of patients who share the same neuropathy, many of them also physicians, and the system is utterly unresponsive. They refuse to take the action necessary for this doctor/victim to get treatment to alleviate the suffering. They aren’t even taking care of their own.

This doctor also happens to be pro-vax. On the one hand, she knows from multiple efforts to contact these bureaucrats personally that they do know what’s going on. On the other hand, they quietly refuse to act within their official capacity. They are intentionally hindering the release of proper care for these victims by preventing the system from investigating the nature of the injuries. It’s a cover-up. If they official acknowledge the growing number of serious adverse reactions, they are forced to report them in various official publications. There is no official reporting on adverse reactions due to the COVID vaccines in the US; they are pretending that there are no adverse reactions.

It’s one more piece of the puzzle to back up my wild claims that this whole vaccine policy is designed to kill as many people as possible. The federal policy is justly inferred from the actions taken: ensure that the vaccines serve the purpose of reducing the human population. This is politics, not medicine. If it were ever in doubt, you can see the system has turned against us.

Addenda: If you feel the urge to read more about this kind of thing, I can recommend So, Are They Trying To Kill You or Are They Just Corrupt, Avaricious, and Stupid? and a longish video (55 min.) relating an interview with a mortician who tracked the patterns. First is that people died of all kinds of things, but were labeled as COVID-related. Second, a sudden rise in deaths coinciding with the public pressure to get the jab.

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Shall Not Pass Away

Posted on September 24, 2021 by ehurst

Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matthew 5:17-19)

I am aware of the common expositions of the passage, and take issue with them. Keep in mind that Jesus is talking about the Kingdom of Heaven, the realm He was preparing for His own coronation. He wasn’t restricting this to just the Covenant of Moses, which was near its end, but the New Covenant in His Blood. Thus, the Law and Prophets are binding in some sense going into that New Covenant.

This passage stands in the wider context of the Sermon the Mount, wherein Jesus reinstates the Hebrew Mystical approach to serving His Father. A chief exhibit in this was the Beatitudes that come just before this passage. Jesus invested a lot of effort in reconnecting the Law to the Person of the Father. It was eastern feudalism; Law is merely the approximate shape of your loving commitment to the Father. It was quite flexible; there were priorities that would eclipse many of the provisions. It was meant to be sensible, setting you free to avoid getting wrapped up in the nonsense of people who miss the forest for the trees.

Thus, Paul advised us to take this all very seriously as we give ourselves to studying the Old Testament Scripture (2 Timothy 2:15), which was the only Bible they had at the time he wrote that. There were plenty of places where Jesus and the Apostles flatly stated that some provisions of Moses simply didn’t apply to us. Even more important, though, was how much of it applied differently under the New Covenant.

Isn’t it sad that so many people get hung up on that one phrase out of Romans 6, where Paul says “for you are not under law but under grace” (v. 14) and miss the entire context of what he is trying to get across. The context is several chapters together, in which he seeks to disentangle the nonsense about “law” in the minds of Christian Jews. For many of the them, there remained an awful lot of Talmudic teaching that they considered “law.” And the really dangerous issue was how Talmudic teaching was so legalistic. It was always a matter of “works of the law.”

Paul keeps raising the issue of “justified by faith.” The problem is that Western Church heritage has filled that word “faith” with a lot of false baggage. It’s not like “faith” is a castle to be defended. Rather, it’s original meaning in Hebrew was a commitment from the heart, a determination to serve with full ardor the One who pays the price to bring you into His family. So this business of being “under grace” sets you free from Talmudic legalism, but it does not set you free from the intent of the Law of Moses. The mission of manifesting the Father’s love and grace still has to follow the shape — not necessarily the details — of the Law as Moses received it on Mount Sinai.

People who were enslaved to their fleshly nature were free from any concerns about actual righteousness (Romans 6:20). Once that fleshly nature has been put under a death sentence from the Cross, we are free to discover the privileges that the Law was intended to give those who actually loved their Lord. And so it goes, in which Paul keeps using the word “law” to refer to the Talmudic approach, not what Moses brought down from the mountain.

This is wholly consistent with what Jesus had to say in the Sermon on the Mount. There’s a parable there, and I’m sure most people miss it. Jesus brought us up onto the mountain to be with God and receive the divine revelation just like Moses did. But it’s first-person personal, instead of need a human priestly figure as go-between. We go up to receive a new heart, not stone tablets. Commitment to obeying your convictions is the Law. We need the written revelation to inform the fallen brain so it doesn’t get off track. But as soon as we get the mind trained to obey the heart of conviction, we get this glowing sense of divine Presence that overwhelms our fleshly failures.

The Covenant that Moses actually taught, with the intent of that mass of code bringing us to the Father’s heart, is what Jesus insisted would not pass away until He returns.

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Jeremiah Revision Ready for Printing

Posted on September 23, 2021 by ehurst

I was able to work steadily for a couple of days, so here’s AT-Jeremiah and Lamentations. As always, there are other formats available.

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Odds and Ends 11

Posted on September 23, 2021 by ehurst

1. I’m still riding my bike; I’m keeping up the maintenance. I recently replaced the drive chain and the rear tire. If nothing else, the economic troubles will require it as a primary means of transportation from time to time. However, the long pleasure rides across the countryside are gone. Over the past two weeks the Lord has dealt with me about this, saying that He will no longer protect me from the knee wear-n-tear that arises from taking long hilly rides.

On the other hand, He does require me to keep up with the physical therapy exercises and the other stuff I do in connection with that. So three days each week I’m going to invest a couple of hours in that long workout. It includes riding a few miles as part of that.

2. As previously noted, the core of the Radix Fidem path is your convictions. The whole point of Radix Fidem is to provide a frame of reference for normalizing the heart-led way of faith. That’s part of what “meta-religion” means. Upon that foundation, we also strive to research ways to turn that into a community of faith. There are no Lone Rangers in Christ, not by design. You may be stuck following this path in isolation for a time, but inevitably the Spirit works to turn this into a community. That’s also part of our path.

A fundamental element in the Radix Fidem path is a high degree of separation from the society at large. Unless you live in a society that is very close to the Covenant of Biblical Law, it is your duty to seek a strong measure of withdrawal from the world around you. We are obliged to do things quite differently, because our entire outlook is radically different.

Christ made it plain that following Him brings persecution. It will ebb and flow based on historical currents that God controls, so we have no grounds for trying to regulate it in any way. The last thing we want, though, is to compromise with the world on the grounds of seeking their approval as the means to a reduction in persecution. That’s what has brought us where we are today with the mainstream church so very far from Scripture.

This separation is the foundation of our outreach. We need to seek divine wisdom on what measures of separation are consistent with the Covenant. Obviously I’m not going to call for a uniform, such as we see with Orthodox Jews, stuck in some particular time or place. But I will call for a measure of cloistering, of seeking to generate an atmosphere that limits exposure to the defiling influences of our damned world. We want as much Covenant atmosphere as we can get, so as to claim as much shalom as the Lord will grant.

We need to pray about ways to build an independent community: an independent social structure, an independent economy, an independent food supply, etc. We need to think in terms of keeping it all at home, so to speak, as much as possible. Yes, it needs to be as exclusive as we can make it.

3. I just spent the last two or three days struggling with my wife’s laptop running Win10. It would update, but then refuse to register it. The registry got corrupted, and I’m finding that there are numerous complaints on the Net about just how easily and frequently that happens. It’s gotten quite fragile. The solution was to reinstall in place using the ISO creation tool. It took hours.

For me, this in itself fulfills the prediction that Microsoft will jump the shark. The whole process of updating is taking over the use of the system itself. You have no viable choice; the system will invest all its resources in updating when MS says so. You don’t get to use it unless you have a very expensive machine with lots of resources. For most users who can’t afford $2000+ machines, it’s not your computer any more.

This is only going to get worse. It’s a bad time to be hostage to Windows.

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